What to expect at CES 2024

No single occasion of the 12 months delivers extra tech information than CES. The annual commerce present is the place to begin for every year in tech, giving firms an opportunity to announce their subsequent wave of merchandise or tease the bold, far-out, and infrequently unusual new tasks they’ve been engaged on behind the scenes.

This 12 months’s present kicks off from Las Vegas on Tuesday, January ninth and runs by means of Friday, January twelfth, however it’s best to count on information to begin popping out as quickly as, actually, proper now. Firms have been trickling out bulletins over the previous week, and plenty of will attempt to preempt the convention with bulletins within the days earlier than the present ground opens up.

There’s additionally a whole day of keynote shows forward of the present’s official begin. On Monday, count on information from LG, Samsung, Nvidia, Sony, and an entire lot extra, as a lineup of firms from the tech and auto worlds run back-to-back shows.

As all the time, The Verge shall be overlaying the present inside and outside. Listed here are a few of the massive tales we count on to see this 12 months.

CES is at the start a present about new TVs. But it surely looks like we’re in for a comparatively quiet, iterative 12 months in terms of new TV {hardware}. Final 12 months, we noticed significant leaps in brightness for OLED TVs, which made them appropriate for brighter rooms and extra viewing environments. And Mini LED turned the established order for mid- to high-end LCD TVs — at comparatively reasonably priced costs, in addition. 

However LG has already announced its 2024 lineup, and there aren’t any large panel upgrades in retailer this 12 months. As an alternative, the buzzy “new” factor from LG, Roku, and presumably different manufacturers is centered around AI processing. We’ve seen TV makers use AI and machine studying to optimize image and sound for a couple of years now, however they’re actually leaning into it at CES 2024. Maybe that’s no shock given the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, and others. With residence theater, AI is getting used to tweak settings that many customers by no means trouble adjusting themselves and provides content material larger depth and readability. Image purists will little doubt disable many of those AI methods, however the pattern is plain. 

The wild card, as ever, is Samsung. Will the main TV producer play it secure like many rivals, or does the corporate have one thing extra groundbreaking in its again pocket? We’ll discover out in Las Vegas in a matter of days. — Chris Welch

Whereas CES usually masquerades as a automobile present, this 12 months is prone to be totally different. Ford, Basic Motors, Stellantis, and a bunch of different notable names will be absent from the event. For that, you possibly can thank the United Auto Workers strike over the summer, which led the Massive Three to cancel their CES plans this 12 months. 

However there’ll nonetheless be loads of auto-focused bulletins, from a new “global EV series” from Honda, to a flurry of in-car know-how. And, after all, all of this may seemingly include a sprinkling of our favourite tech buzzwords, together with AI, LLMs, and machine studying. So hold your eyes peeled for that. 

Along with Honda, main automobile firms like Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, and BMW could have information to share throughout CES. And Massive Tech gamers like Intel and Amazon shall be burnishing their standing as rising auto suppliers with some sneak peaks at new merchandise coming sooner or later. So whereas there’s going to be much less auto information to chew on than in years previous, CES continues to be prone to dish up a couple of surprises for all of the gearheads and mobility nerds in attendance. — Andrew J. Hawkins

Intel simply introduced a whole new lineup of chips in the Meteor Lake family, and meaning you possibly can count on to see an entire lot of laptops at CES sporting the up to date silicon. However a processor spec bump usually isn’t sufficient to catch the attention on the largest shopper electronics present on the planet. 

CES is the place laptop computer makers like to point out off a few of their flashiest new designs and funky little experiments they’ve been tinkering with. Which means we must always see no less than one or two quirky units that can have us pondering the evolution of the laptop computer’s design.

I’d additionally wager we’re going to see some larger laptops. An adage at The Verge is individuals love massive screens, and that love isn’t restricted to telephones and TVs. They need them of their laptops, too. With Apple not too long ago embracing bigger 14- and 16-inch shows, I wouldn’t be stunned if lots of its rivals begin following swimsuit, shifting us slowly away from the usual 13- and 15-inch laptop computer sizes to one thing just a little roomier. — Alex Cranz

Count on to see a variety of sensible residence improvements primarily based round two phrases: synthetic intelligence. Samsung is setting the tone with its press convention titled “AI for All: Connectivity in the Age of AI,” (see how they obtained AI in there twice?!). The electronics large has already introduced sensible cooktops, vacuums, and fridges with AI baked in, and I count on there’s extra to come back. LG will exhibit an AI-powered home robot with the catchy title “Good Dwelling AI Agent” that it claims will “perceive context and intentions in addition to actively talk with customers.” 

I’ll be watching intently to see what substance these firms put behind their AI claims. Context is unquestionably an space the place AI may assist enhance sensible residence experiences, and generative AI has large potential to simplify the sensible residence. I’ll be in search of options that take the burden of programming our sensible houses off us and put it onto the computer systems. Good residence firms that may successfully implement this into their merchandise shall be one step forward.

The opposite buzzword for the related residence at CES 2024 will, as soon as once more, be Matter. Named The Verge’s Best in Show last year, the brand new sensible residence customary stuttered in 2023. To regain momentum, I count on product bulletins within the newly supported categories of robotic vacuums and residential home equipment (Ecovacs, Roborock, GE Profile, and Whirlpool are all exhibiting this 12 months), plus extra merchandise in underserved areas like smart locks and smart thermostats.

Total, I predict it is going to be a quieter 12 months on the gadget entrance. Many firms must regroup and reassess their method because the mixed forces of Matter and AI start to form a courageous new sensible residence. — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

CES can sometimes play host to quite a few PC gaming bulletins forward of Computex in the summertime, and it seems just like the present could have a bunch for us this 12 months. At CES 2024, we’re anticipating to see Nvidia announce its first RTX 40-series Tremendous playing cards, the primary Tremendous variants because the RTX 20-series. AMD can be rumored to be launching its personal RX 7600 XT GPU later this month, doubtlessly after CES concludes.

I’m most within the newest OLED screens for PC gaming. At CES final 12 months, we noticed the primary spherical of 240Hz OLED screens, and it seems like these will develop in several sizes and styles for 2024, alongside improved refresh charges. LG has pre-announced half a dozen new OLED gaming screens, together with one which’s able to 480Hz at 1080p or 240Hz at 4K. LG Show even has a 27-inch OLED that may do as much as 480Hz at 1440p that’s coming later this 12 months. Samsung has additionally unveiled a brand new lineup of Odyssey OLED gaming screens, with as much as 360Hz refresh charges.

We could even see one other handheld gaming PC. Each Asus and Lenovo have provided up their very own alternate options to Valve’s standard Steam Deck, however there are a number of different Home windows-powered alternate options, too. MSI has dropped a big hint that it’s about to launch a ROG Ally and Steam Deck competitor. I’d be stunned if CES passes with out one other handheld gaming PC within the combine. — Tom Warren

So far as cellphone information goes, the weeks between October and mid-January are type of like baseball’s All Star break. Certain, a few of your favourite gamers are on the sphere, and there’s a recreation occurring, however the actual motion comes later. This 12 months, Samsung’s Unpacked is scheduled proper on the heels of CES, on January seventeenth, with Cellular World Congress following in late February. That’s going to make this 12 months’s CES a quiet one for cell information.

Nonetheless, CES most likely gained’t be a complete shutout. The primary telephones with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 have been trickling out, and we would get a glimpse of 1 or two extra in Vegas. Qualcomm’s new flagship chipset leans into generative AI in an enormous means, and that’s undoubtedly going to be a significant theme all year long. And who is aware of? Possibly we’ll see some wacky flexible screen concepts from TCL. These are all the time enjoyable! — Allison Johnson

Smartwatches have taken a backseat lately at CES, so don’t count on to see so much on that entrance. Living proof: Fossil is normally a daily CES fixture, schlepping a mini horde of Android watches to Vegas every year. Nevertheless, it gained’t be there in any respect this 12 months. That’s okay, although — CES is the place weirder wearable concepts get to shine.  

I’d count on to see one thing wacky from Withings. Possibly not fairly as out-there as last year’s at-home urinalysis device, however CES tends to be the place the corporate showcases its imaginative and prescient for our telehealth future. Good rings have additionally been simmering for some time, and regardless that many are not ready for primetime, I count on to see firms exhibiting off their takes on a smaller, extra discreet well being tracker. It’s additionally seemingly that we’ll see a brand new spherical of over-the-counter listening to aids on the present ground, in addition to ideas for AR sensible glasses — particularly now that Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional is lurking across the nook.

I’ve written about it earlier than, however CES is the place we see a variety of health tech ideas that never seem to make it to consumers (or gained’t for a number of years on the minimal). I’ve little doubt there shall be some exhibitors exploring noninvasive blood glucose monitoring, wearable blood strain units, and sensible residence telehealth devices. Magnificence and wellness tech has develop into an growing presence on the present, too. L’Oreal — which has a bigger tech presence than you’d assume — is about to ship a keynote this 12 months, so I think about they’ve obtained one thing cool deliberate, too. — Victoria Track